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MOSCOW, June 18 On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a video of the operation of Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters «on enemy strongholds and armored vehicles during a special military operation in Ukraine. On the footage — helicopters take off for a combat mission, launches of unguided aircraft missiles from a pitch-up, control of hitting targets by airborne surveillance and aiming equipment, as well as the return of military vehicles to the base point.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/d36a3af3dcf30ae1b857306d319747ff.jpg" />The Russian Armed Forces killed more than 350 Ukrainian nationalists in a day. Ukrainian military. «Air strikes were delivered from a distance of more than 5 kilometers. As a result of combat use, the command post, tanks and other armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed,» the Ministry of Defense specified. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.